Thor: The Dark World
Walt Disney Pictures | Release Date: November 8, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
19
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 6, 2013
There’s nothing in Thor: The Dark World that wasn’t done better in “Thor,” or a lot better in “The Avengers.” Except Tom Hiddleston’s performance as Loki. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNov 6, 2013
Thor: The Dark World may not be thunder from the movie gods, but it is — shock! — an entertaining journey into mystery, action and fun. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonOct 29, 2013
This is a deeply silly, extremely noisy and sometimes impenetrable action movie that’s drowning in CGI, wild overacting and mullets. And it’s enormously entertaining. Read full review
60
The GuardianBen ChildOct 23, 2013
No amount of tool-wielding heroism can save The Dark World from being a startlingly unbalanced movie. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerNov 8, 2013
My favorite moment in the movie: Astrophysicist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) insisting on wearing only his underwear because he says he thinks better that way. Hey, whatever works. Read full review
52
Film.comKate ErblandNov 5, 2013
If only all of Thor: The Dark World could capture the magic of its last act, the film wouldn’t feel like such a chink in Marvel’s otherwise solid armor. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 7, 2013
Bigger is not always better. Thor: The Dark World pumps up the action and special effects and loses some of the human element that made the original "Thor" something charming and unexpected. True, this sequel gets better as it goes along, but that's a very steep climb just to arrive at not bad. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNov 7, 2013
Poor Thor. Dude can't even hold center stage in his own movie. He's the Asgardian god of stolen thunder, upstaged at each ab turn by Loki, malarkey and Odin's eyepatch. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 7, 2013
Has its moments of visual invention and self-aware humor — mostly when the hero’s trickster brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is around — but otherwise it’s an awkwardly plotted extravaganza. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigNov 7, 2013
Leaden, non-involving and filled with mind-numbing computer-generated effects. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezNov 7, 2013
There’s a fleet and funny comic-book movie nestled inside Thor: The Dark World. You catch glimpses of it here and there. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 7, 2013
Hiddleston steals the show here, making wickedness and treachery look a heck of a lot more fun than virtue. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinOct 22, 2013
Although director Alan Taylor manages to get things going properly for the final battle in London, the long stretches before that on Asgard and the other branches of Yggdrasil are a drag. Read full review
50
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonOct 22, 2013
A film that is enjoyable in spots, but haphazard and ultimately unsatisfying. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNov 8, 2013
None of that is to say that Thor: The Dark World is a bad movie, necessarily. I would never speak ill of a man with a giant, magical hammer. At the same time, hammer or no hammer, it doesn't quite nail it, either. Read full review
40
TimeRichard CorlissNov 7, 2013
The clutter makes your head feel like it's about to explode - and not in a good way, with wonders upon wonders. Instead it seems like arcana that might show up on the midterm final: the next Marvel movie. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearNov 6, 2013
This is a superhero movie that feels like it might have been made by anyone and no one at the same time, simply space-filler before the next big team-up movie. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonNov 5, 2013
Lacking Iron Man’s wit, the Hulk’s brains, and the Captain’s ideals, he’s in peril of going poof himself if the franchise doesn’t figure out how to capitalize on its most glorious hero. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinOct 22, 2013
It feels entirely made by committee – the definition of house style, without a personal stamp in sight. Read full review
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